the.yangist Posted August 27, 2009 at 01:30 AM Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 at 01:30 AM According to one of the Chinese word (not character) corpora I downloaded (I'll check for the link.), 待 is ranked 1362 and 呆 is ranked 1462, which if you follow Zipf's law is a really minute difference, imperceptible to human speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in_lab Posted August 27, 2009 at 07:51 AM Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 at 07:51 AM It looks like 呆 is used less often to mean 待 in Taiwan. From search results, it looks like 待 is about four times as common. It's hard to tell which sense people are using 呆 in. For example, written as「呆」在家好, it's easy to see that the person means "staying at home doing nothing", not just "staying at home", but if the quotes aren't included, it's not so clear. If you look at the Taiwan's MOE dictionary, the 待 sense of 呆 is not listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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